Emma G. Gallegos

Are you addicted to tanning? If you're under 18, you may only have a few months left to get your fix. When the dark days of January arrive, it may no longer be legal for teens to don the goggles and go under the ultraviolet lights.

A business executive in Orange County confessed this week to killing his partner and sending phony e-mails from his account, so that his family would think that he was in Africa. The plan of confessed murderer Edward Shin worked for a while, according to the Los Angeles Times. But this December Shin wrote that his partner Christopher Ryan Smith was going into the Congo and Rwanda, and that's when the story began to unravel.

After a jury locked and a judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the case against a teen who shot a gay student in front of other classmates at his Oxnard high school, prosecutors vowed to push for a retrial. But experts — and the prosecutors themselves admit — that a second trial may not be any easier than the first.

A man who hacked into the computer of more than 100 women, read their emails, spied on them through webcams, obtained nude pictures and in some cases threatened to release them publicly was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday. Federal Judge George King handed down the stiff penalty to Luis Mijangos, 32, of Santa Ana that he said was a warning to other hackers, The Associated Press reports.

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A judge has declared a mistrial in the case against teen Brandon McInerney, who was accused of gunning down his classmate Larry King at their Oxnard high school in 2008. No one disputes that McInerney pulled the trigger, but the jury deadlocked over whether McInerney should be charged with voluntary manslaughter, as the defense argued, or first-degree murder.

A squirrel narrowly avoided the fate of so many mastodons and saber-toothed cats eons before, when it was rescued from the La Brea Tar Pits. A worker from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art saved the creature from the tar pits a few weeks ago and called the California Wildlife Center near Calabasas to rehabilitate the creature, The Acorn Reports.

An Orange County woman learned the risks of being a stoner mommy the hard way. Last week, the Ladera Ranch mother put in a panicked (and perhaps rightfully paranoid) call to the local sheriff's department, requesting the help of paramedics. It turns out her 16-month-old baby had mistaken a loaded bong for a baby bottle and downed the contents The OC Weekly Reports.

It's not just your imagination: Angelenos are more than 50 percent more likely to get into a crash than everyone else nationally. That means while everyone else is only colliding once every 10 years, our individual drivers get into collisions every 6.6 years on average. The data comes from a survey of claims in the 200 largest U.S. cities from January 2008 to December 2009 put out by Allstate.

See a bee in your backyard? Rob and Chelsea McFarland are begging you not to call the exterminator. The westside couple, according to Culver City Patch, is on a crusade to legalize beekeeping in Los Angeles city limits and bring the good news about bees to the masses (who might only hear horror stories like this).

If you are one of the 100 or so people who bought their Sunset Junction ticket at Origami Vinyl, you're in luck. The same is true for ticketholders that bought their tickets the Silverlake Farmer's Market. Over at their blog, the Echo Park record shop is now promising to refund the money you paid for the tickets and service fees: "Now, at long last, everything has been ironed out and we are happy to announce that refunds will be issued."

Now that he could be facing charges, the fisherman who reeled in a great white shark off the coast of Huntington Beach has to do something no fisherman wants to do: downplay his catch. The fisherman, Michael Castillo, is now saying that he had no idea that he was reeling in a protected species. "I was nervous, excited," Castillo told NBC Los Angeles. "I didn't know what was at the end of the hook."